Top Software Engineer Jobs in Washington DC,

Architect and deliver complex distributed systems using Azure cloud-native technologies, microservices, APIs, and event-driven patterns. Lead architecture reviews, reliability initiatives, performance optimization, incident response, and root-cause analysis. Drive adoption of AI-assisted development tools while maintaining security and code quality. Collaborate across engineering, DevOps, QA, and product teams, and mentor engineers on technical design, development practices, and AI-enabled workflows.

Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain scalable Salesforce solutions using Apex, Lightning Web Components, Visualforce, Flow, and integrations. Collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams, perform code reviews, troubleshoot applications, support the software development lifecycle, and provide technical mentorship. The role requires Salesforce enterprise application deployment experience, Salesforce certifications, integration expertise, U.S. citizenship, and eligibility for a Government Public Trust Clearance.

Staff Engineer leading architecture and technical direction for Zip’s real-time payments and money-movement platform. The role designs reliable distributed systems, leads complex cross-team initiatives, mentors senior engineers, and improves scalability, performance, and engineering standards. It also drives responsible AI adoption across engineering through tooling, workflow integration, governance, measurement, and production-grade AI capabilities. Candidates need extensive backend, payments or correctness-critical systems, cloud, system design, and technical leadership experience.

Lead the iOS engineering team and technical architecture for Aave App. Build secure blockchain functionality including wallets, private keys, transaction signing, RPC interactions, gas estimation, and onchain data flows. Establish standards for Swift and UIKit development, testing, observability, performance, release safety, and incident response. Remain hands-on with foundational architecture and security-sensitive features while mentoring engineers and partnering with product, design, backend, protocol, and security teams.

Build, modernize, deploy, and operate CMG’s marketing platform across current and legacy .NET systems. Develop APIs, integrations, background jobs, and loan-data workflows; troubleshoot issues across application code, SQL Server, vendor APIs, and Azure; and improve testing, CI/CD, deployment safety, and architecture. Work hands-on with coding agents, structured requirements, acceptance validation, and production ownership while migrating legacy applications toward modern services and internal APIs.

Build and optimize developer-facing tools, including IDE integrations, CLIs, code-analysis systems, and CI/CD workflows. Integrate transparent, reliable AI capabilities into developer experiences, optimize high-volume production services, and improve availability, latency, and efficiency. Drive engineering best practices through code reviews, automation, documentation, and technical leadership while mentoring junior engineers. The role also requires communicating complex architectures and operating tooling across enterprise deployment environments.

Lead a multi-team engineering organization responsible for delivery, technical quality, production reliability, security, privacy, and AI-native development practices. Build scalable teams and managers, establish cross-team delivery systems, partner with Product and Design, oversee observability and incident response, use engineering metrics to guide improvements, and shape hiring, leveling, and talent development.

Develop high-quality, scalable, and maintainable software solutions as part of a small engineering team. Coach client teams on modern software development practices, apply test-driven development, and participate in ongoing training and professional development. The role is hybrid, requiring onsite work two to three days per week.

Develop and maintain scalable backend applications, microservices, APIs, integrations, and production-ready client-facing features. Ensure systems are secure, documented, tested, and performant while collaborating with product, engineering, and business stakeholders. Translate business goals into technical architecture, estimate scope and timelines, and contribute across the technology stack in a remote, cross-disciplinary environment.

Lead and grow engineering teams building blockchain and Web3 products. Drive technical strategy, architecture, delivery, quality, hiring, mentoring, and engineering processes to ensure reliable product delivery and team scaling.